ABSTRACT
In 1999, a staging of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the style of the venerable gambuh dance-theatre was presented as a part of major odalan festivities reconsecrating Pura Besakih-the most revered of all temples in Bali, Indonesia.1 The production, over a year in the making, was restaged later that summer in Bali’s capital city of Denpasar as a part of the annual Bali Arts Festival-a secular event targeted to urban and international audiences. Still later, the Gambuh Macbeth was restaged at the odalan of the Pura Dalem (Chthonic Temple) in Sukawati-a village renowned for its arts and for its particularly knowledgeable and demanding populace-and at a festival attended by Indonesian and foreign scholars and artists designed to promote the renewal of gambuh as a theatrical form. Directed by I Kadek
Figure 15.1 Stiffening Macbeth’s resolve: “Art thou afeared / To be the same in thine own act and valor / As thou art in desire?” Macbeth (1.7)© J. Emigh.
